A history of Rome from 753 B.C. to A.D. 410

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Pagina 266He preferred to try what diplomacy could do. Now the best safeguard perhaps
which Rome possessed against Parthian aggression was the Parthians' own
tendency to internal dissension. The succession to the throne was endlessly
disputed ...

Pagina 305period dining which Claudius restored the throne to the native prince Herod
Agrippa, it had reverted to pr0curator's rule; and during the term of Gessius Florus
in A.D. 66, riots broke out simultaneously in Caesarea and at Jerusalem, where
the ...

Pagina 417Maxentius assumed the throne in Italy, and his.old father Maximian reappeared
to assist him. Severus, a nominee of Galerius, being sent to contest this
usurpation, was defeated, captured, and killed. Licinius, arriving on a similar
mission, ...